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[H2] Celebrating 25 years working with the best Musicians, Producers, Engineers, Guitar Techs, and Rig Builders Worldwide

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All cables hand-built in the USA, from USA-manufactured material

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[H2] DIY Solderless Patch Cable Kit
Our proprietary and award-winning Screw-In-Solderless plugs and Monorail cable are used by David Gilmour, Noel Gallagher, Graham Coxton, Josh Smith, Ed O'Brien, Guthrie Govan, Andy Timmons, Guy Pratt, Steven Rothery and many others.
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[H2] Guitar Cables

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The Melody Guitar Cable

The Melody Guitar Cable

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The Reveal Guitar Cable

The Reveal Guitar Cable

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The Lyric HG Guitar Cable

The Lyric HG Guitar Cable

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The Forte Guitar Cable

The Forte Guitar Cable

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[H2] Audio Cables

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The Melody Audio Cable

The Melody Audio Cable

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The Reveal Audio Cable

The Reveal Audio Cable

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The Lyric HG Audio Cable

The Lyric HG Audio Cable

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The Forte Audio Cable

The Forte Audio Cable

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[H2] Microphone Cables

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The Lyric HG Microphone Cable

The Lyric HG Microphone Cable

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The Forte Microphone Cable

The Forte Microphone Cable

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[H2] Speaker and Power Cables

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The Siren Speaker Cable

The Siren Speaker Cable

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Source AC Power Cable

Source AC Power Cable

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[H1] DIY Solderless Patch Cable Kit

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DIY Solderless Patch Cable Kit

Build your own patch cable kit here with exactly what you need to build a pedalboard or expand a current project!

MONORAIL PATCH CABLE

$2.95 USD

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Screw-In Solderless 1/4" Patch Cable Plugs

$7.95 USD

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[H2] DESCRIPTION
The first and only Patented Solderless Patch cable system to legitimize the product category for both sound quality and reliability.
Evidence Audio introduces the perfect 1/4″ Phone plug for use with its award-winning Monorail signal cable.
The perfect combination of Monorail sound quality, the convenience to build and rebuild without solder, a compact cable and plug combination, and no signal failures in the middle of a song!
As used by David Gilmour, Noel Gallagher, Graham Coxton, Ed O’Brien, Josh Smith, Guthrie Govan, Andy Timmons, Guy Pratt, Steven Rothery, and many others.

[H2] DESIGN
Our Proprietary high-purity IGL copper conductors for distortion-free midrange and high frequencies.
The solid-core center conductor eliminates the negative effects of strand interaction on the audio signal.
20 awg conductor size keeps skin-effect distortions outside the audio spectrum while offering ample cross-sectional area.
Parallel-run shield provides 98% coverage with minimal crosstalk.
Coaxial geometry with low capacitance.
Carbon-loaded extrusion for protection from triboelectric noise.

[H2] CONNECTORS

The inside of the tip of the SIS plug is carefully machined to have “threads” of a precise size and pitch. These threads cut and re-shape the soft conductor of the Monorail cable when turned around it several times.
When you push the prepared cable into the SIS plug, the soft copper will find the hole. When you turn the plug 1 or 2 times the harder brass core of the plug will catch and cut into the copper conductor. When you feel this happen you put the cap in place and screw the SIS plug into the cap.
This action turns the soft copper deeper into the SIS core – Mashes the ground up against the SIS body to make ground contact (airtight as the copper is deformed inside pushing air from the connection). This seals the jacket at the exit tightly so that the cable will not come loose from the plug and the cap will not come loose from the plug body. When finished the tip/core connection with the Monorail is also air-tight and in many ways better than a soldered connection. If you unscrew the SIS plug and remove the Monorail cable you can see the soft copper has been shaped to meet with the SIS core.

[H2] ASSEMBLY INSTRUCTIONS

1) REMOVE the thin black (conductive) skin from around the white insulation. If it touches where the conductor needs to enter, you’ll create a complete short or partial short with weak signal.
2) Do not cut up your cable into short pieces before attaching the plugs. Instead attach the first plug to your long/entire supply of cable. Measure the length required to the other plug. Cut and attach the second plug to complete your cable. Rinse, repeat.
3) Wear rubber gloves to get a good grip and spare sore fingers when closing tight.

[H3] ASSEMBLY FOR THE RIGHT-ANGLE CONNECTORS

[H3] ASSEMBLY FOR THE STRAIGHT CONNECTORS:

Push the cable into the plug and when you seat the core, rotate the plug about 10-12 full revolutions (straight plug only). This will simultaneously thread the copper core into the tip of the plug and screw the body of the plug onto the cable jacket. You only need the jacket to enter the plug a few millimeters.
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[H2] You may also like

The Melody Guitar Cable

The Reveal Guitar Cable

The Lyric HG Guitar Cable

The Forte Guitar Cable

The Siren Speaker Cable

Source AC Power Cable

[H3] ESP-RA-S

[H3] ESP-RA-L

[H3] ESP-RA-TRS

[H3] ESP-RA-TRS-DM

[H1] ESP™ Soldered Plug the smallest pancake connectors for patch cables

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ESP™ Soldered Plug the smallest pancake connectors for patch cables

For those who like to solder their patch cables with the best parts available. Solder your own patch cables with what you need below.

[H4] MONO

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ESP-RA-S

$5.95 USD

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ESP-RA-L

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[H4] STEREO/TRS

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ESP-RA-TRS

$8.35 USD

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ESP-RA-TRS-DM

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A compact, solderable pancake-style connector designed for superior audio clarity and easy assembly.

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[H1] Cables from Evidence Audio for the Job

MONORAIL PATCH CABLE

$2.95 USD

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BLACKROCK BULK CABLE

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[H3] IMPORTANT BLACKROCK ASSEMBLY NOTE!
Blackrock is offered here in bulk but requires serious consideration for the “DIY” user. The enamel coating on the strands of Blackrock must be removed before soldering the connection. The best way to do this is by using a liquid flux and a high-temperature iron.
Please see the video on the left above where the conductors are prepared by an experienced assembler. The practice leading up to this display was thousands of hours and make it look easy. If you have not worked with the IGL-ECS conductors found in Blackrock, Reveal or Forte cable I recommend that you budget time for learning how to do so, or consider the Monorail cable which will sound equally amazing and give you a much easier termination process.

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[H2] You may also like

The Melody Guitar Cable

The Reveal Guitar Cable

The Lyric HG Guitar Cable

The Forte Guitar Cable

The Siren Speaker Cable

Source AC Power Cable

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Our Story

Evidence Audio was founded by Tony Farinella, who focused on design methodologies in his research lab more than 25 years ago.
His goal was to create cables that would preserve the quality of sound as it passes through electronics. Every cable is designed to “disappear” without imparting its signature on the signal path.
His innovation and next-level thinking continues to deliver precisely engineered products for the best Musicians, Producers, Engineers, Guitar Techs, and Rig Builders Worldwide.
Thank you for listening and keep the music first.

[H1] Our Cables
“Everything I do is voiced with the same goal in mind. All my cables are precisely engineered and designed to “disappear” without imparting their signature on the signal path. To use a visual analogy, a perfect cable would be like looking through a clean window, free from distortions and coloration. Our cables are balanced without emphasizing any frequencies, always friendly to the music to keep you engaged.  There are several options to choose the right cable depending on your application.
Evidence Audio will get you to the next level, so you can hear your music (or any instrument) the way it should sound.

The Melody
Most audio cables are coaxial – a wire in the middle for positive and a surrounding shield for ground. There’s not much difference between them. The Melody is different. It’s a coax cable using a center conductor and shield that are optimized for audio quality. It’s going to pass signal between any two pieces of gear without adding irritating distortions in the highest frequencies, or blurring details in the midrange. Recorded voice will more easily convince you it’s real. Percussion will be fast and articulate. If you’re playing guitar the conductive shielding will keep it quiet when you move around or drag it across the floor, and everything your fingers do on the strings will come off the speaker.

[H3] The Lyric HG
The Lyric HG is a reference-level cable that disappears from the signal path. It’s got the right amount of shielding but only to protect your signal from noise -- not to carry your audio signal. The audio is carried by TWO audio-optimized conductors: one for positive and one for negative. This uncommon approach presents your music with much better dynamics. Notes come out of a blacker background for the sense if a higher signal to noise ratio. Dynamics come alive and as many people simply put it, “there’s more there". This semi-balanced design also creates a three-dimensional quality to the music that helps with imaging and a sense of space between on a micro level between individual notes of a chord and a macro level between individual instruments in an ensemble. The Lyric can be run balanced to benefit applications which require it in recording and playback. While a bit on the stiff side, many people who use it with guitar are amazed to hear what their fingers, pick-ups, and amplifiers truly sound like.
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The Reveal
The Reveal is much like the Melody but solves the problems associated with strand interaction a different way. Where the Melody uses a single solid-core conductor to eliminate strand interaction, the Reveal uses a stranded conductor of ultra-high purity copper with an insulative coating on each individual strand. This design approach gives you a cable that’s a serious upgrade over traditional coaxial designs but retains the flexibility and physical handling properties of a typical stranded cable. Great for any single-ended applications for recording, playback or with instruments that will be moved around a bit more. Where the Melody would be great for a lap-steel guitar or upright bass, the Reveal would make better sense for an electric guitar on stage or bass player who wants to crowd surf.
[H3] The Forte
The Forte is quite like the Lyric in that it’s using two audio-optimized conductors for the audio signal and the shield to block noise from entering them. What you hear is more an indication of what other cables take away from the signal path than anything Forte adds to it. Compared with typical cables one could be led to believe that the Forte adds a very slight gain stage to the signal path; in reality other cables are muting information across a range of frequencies. The Forte is transparent and neutrally balanced to work why any associated equipment. There is no trying to “match” the right cable for what you’re connecting it to. With the Forte you simply hear your associated equipment and music as it is. A key difference between the Lyric and the Forte is the similar difference between the Melody and Reveal. The negative effects of strand interaction are solved by insulating the individual strands of the conductor instead of using single solid core conductors. What does this mean? Reference-level playback and recording in a flexible and rugged package suitable for any environment.
[H3] The Siren
Music is music whether amplified or not, and when you compare variables in material quality, stranding and geometry between an amplifier and a speaker, you hear the same things you hear between a microphone and a pre-amp. The Siren speaker cable goes between an amplifier and speaker and lets the music play in an open, dynamic way that breaths without congestion, irritating high frequencies, or muted and damped low frequencies robbed of speed and articulation.
[H3] The Source
AC power quality is one of the most variable and archaic inputs to a power supply, and further challenged by radio frequency noise that can enter the cable from a myriad of sources. While modern power supply can mitigate a lot of these noises, any noise that is introduced by an inferior AC cable can mask subtle details in the audio presentation. In addition, most typical AC cables are not designed to transfer the large and variable power demands from an amplifier without losses in current or without signal modulation. The Source cable can do so in such a way that transients and dynamics are presented with presence and authority and simultaneously unmask distortions that quiet the background and allow subtle experiences such as sustain to ring out much longer in duration. Be it a DAC, a powered studio monitor or amplifier the Source AC power cable is a meaningful upgrade to any power supply
[H3] The Monorail
The Monorail is a coaxial cable that embodies many of the important design features of the Evidence Audio family of cables in a small diameter cable. This allows you to replace smaller cables that are causing distortions with a better-sounding option, where the larger and heavier cables won’t fit. Examples include on pedalboards where space is at a premium, in rack system where every ounce matters, or inside the cavity of a guitar for its wiring harness.
[H3] Blackrock
Like Monorail, Blackrock is designed to sound great and fit in tight spaces. Where Monorail uses a single solid-core conductor to carry the audio, Blackrock instead uses a stranded conductor where each of the individual strands are insulated from each other with an enamel coating. Blackrock solves the audible problems of strand modulation of the signal but does so while being extremely flexible. Where every bit of flexibility counts, Blackrock can offer a serious upgrade in audio quality and be at home in any physical environment.